rusticate
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He plans to rusticate in Mexico, not talk any English for 90 days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretary of Commerce Lament will rusticate on his son's ranch at Larkspur, Col.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franco, who has yet to commit himself unequivocally to restoration of the monarchy, sought to rusticate the prince and his prospective bride outside Madrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley.
From Time Magazine Archive
A spot designed by Heaven for me to rusticate in this summer when—when we go back to town.
From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell
Two students were rusticated, or dismissed, by their colleges for climbing King's College Chapel in June 1937.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2019
One of the largest developers in Monaco, Marzocco has turned its hand to everything from pink palazzos encrusted with wedding-cake mouldings to rusticated stone castles.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2014
Much later, after 2 a.m., the saxophonist Jeremy Udden filled the space with the echoing sound of his band, Plainville: a distinctly contemporary wash, warm and rusticated, with a strong pull of nostalgia.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2011
Mr. Mellencamp also rusticated and backdated his music, adding folky instruments to his band and modeling his newer songs on Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and the blues.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2011
I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010
In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Jack Paar, supposedly rusticating there, is host-narrator.
From Time Magazine Archive
This I found by an acquaintance which I formed, in 1810, with the late amiable Dr. Wistar, while rusticating at Bristol, on the banks of the Delaware.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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